operator

Definition

  • noun: a person who uses and controls something (such as a machine, device, or business)
  • noun: one that 'operates'
  • synonyms: machiavellian, pbx operator, activist

Examples

  • She's quite an 'operator'—no one else could have gotten them all to agree to the project.

  • Call the 'operator' for the phone number.

  • the 'operator' of a nuclear power plant

Movie quotes

  • (..) keep you distracted while they broke into your financial network, transferred your holdings into dummy accounts... Overseas operator, please. Why else were they willing to shoot at us? Alamein Bank, Zurich, Switzerland. Because (..)
    1997 The Game